2024年4月28日发(作者：)

Unit 1

12 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we

do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because

we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much. During the

growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved

in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.

13 The other requirement is energy -- a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency

work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other

expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only

machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower

rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.

14 How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess

-- perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, we'll leave with

a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense

a

sense of pride at what

at

what we've been able

been

able to

accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. We've

invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double

that if we sold today. But this is not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions

improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.

15 We didn't move here primarily to earn money though. We came because we

wanted to improve the quality of our lives. When I watch Emily collecting eggs in

the evening, fishing with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the

orchard with the entire family, I know we've found just what we were looking . for

课后翻译：

十年之前，南希做了许许多多美国人梦寐以求的事。她辞去了经理职位，在

邻近地区开了一家家用器材商店。像南希那样的人作出这种决定主要是出于改善

生活质量的愿望。

然而，经营小本生意绝非易事。在失去稳定的收入后，南希不得不削减日常开

支。有时候她甚至没有钱支付她所需要的种种保险的费用。有一次她连电话费也

付不起，只得向她的父母亲借钱。

幸运的是，通过自己的努力，她已经度过了最困难的时期。她决心继续追求她

所向往的更加美好的生活。

A decade ago, Nancy did what so many Americans dream about.

She quit an executive position and opened / set up a household

equipment store in her neighborhood. People like Nancy made the

decision primarily because of/owing to/due to their desire to improve

the quality of their lives.

But, to run a small business is by no means an easy job. Without her

steady income, Nancy had to cut back on her daily expenses.

Sometimes she did not even have the money to pay the premiums for

the various kinds of insurance she needed. Once she could not even pick

up the phone bill and had to ask her parents to loan her some money.

Fortunately, through her own hard work, she has now got through

the most difficult time. She is determined to continue pursuing her

vision of a better life.

Unit 2 

4 Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. Josiah Henson is but

one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the

Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they

used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as

many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.

5 In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National

Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle

in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it's about

time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,

their exploits still largely unsung. I was intent on telling their stories.

课后翻译

痛苦的奴隶生活坚定了亨森为自由而战的决心。他获得自由后不久就成了一个帮

助逃跑奴隶的组织中一员。他几次偷偷地从加拿大回到美国帮助其他奴隶通过地

下铁路获得自由。有一次在逃跑时，亨森和几个逃跑的奴隶被捕捉奴隶的人包围。

他将逃跑的奴隶乔装打扮一番，成功地躲避了追捕。另外，他后来在加拿大的得

累斯顿为逃跑的奴隶建造了一个居住小区，并建立了教堂和学校，逃跑的奴隶们

在这里能够学到有用的谋生之道。他坚信奴隶制终将被废除，所有奴隶终将获得

解放，种族歧视消失的那天一定会到来。

Henson's painful life as a slave strengthened his determination to

struggle for freedom. Shortly after he achieved freedom he became a

member of an organization that assisted fugitive slaves. He secretly

returned to the United States from Canada several times to help others

to travel the Underground Railroad to freedom. Once some slave

catchers closed in on the escaping slaves and Henson when they were

on the run. He disguised them and successfully avoided capture. In

addition, later he built a small settlement in Dresden in Canada for

escaped slaves, setting up a chapel and a school where they could learn

useful ways of making a living. He held to the conviction that slavery

would be abolished, all the slaves would be liberated, and the day was

bound to come when racial discrimination no longer existed.

Unit 3 

4 It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm

systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many

suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars

elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.

5 It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the

windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by

this security force or that guard company.

6 The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public-service

advertisement by a large insurance company not charts showing how

much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's

featured

bicycle with the now-usual padlock

attached to it.